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About Me
Director of Music and Resident Composer
Assistant Director of Music and Accompanist
Russell leads an active performance and composition schedule, specializing in composing music that tells stories. He provides musical direction and composes original scores for productions at The Rogue Theatre, which includes the composition of music for songs, dances, underscoring, and other incidental music. Russell also composes the music for Rogue Radio, a radio play series produced in partnership with Arizona Public Media, NPR 89.1 FM.
As a pianist, Russell often performs with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and various ensembles and choirs in the greater Tucson area. Russell made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2016, performing the music of Dan Forrest.
Education
The University of Arizona
Master of Music (Collaborative Piano)
The University of Kansas
Bachelor of Music (Piano Performance)
Rogue Theatre Music Direction
*original score
*Love's Labor's Lost: Flute, Guitar
*Under Milk Wood: Piano, Keyboards
*The Left Hand of Darkness: Clarinet, Cello, Percussion
Heartbreak House: Flute, Piano
*A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Flute, Harp
The Seafarer: Guitar
*Babette’s Feast: Piano
*Great Expectations: Percussion, Piano
*Passage: Cello, Percussion
*Death of a Salesman: Flute, Piano
Twelfth Night: Violin, Clarinet, Piano
*As You Like It: Flute, Cello, Harp
*The Oresteia: Percussion, Violin, Piano
*Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Cello, Piano
*A View from the Bridge: Piano
The Beauty Queen of Leenane: Violin, Cello
*Moby Dick: Percussion, Accordion, Piano
Blithe Spirit: Musical Saw, Piano
Long Day’s Journey into Night: Piano
*Much Ado About Nothing: Violin, Piano
Photo Gallery
Tucson Masterworks Chorale (2023)